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eccentricities

NOUN

bizarreness, unusualness

Synonyms

STRONGEST

foible idiosyncrasy peculiarity quirk weirdness

STRONG

aberration abnormality anomaly caprice capriciousness freakishness irregularity kink nonconformity oddity oddness outlandishness queerness singularity strangeness unconventionality whimsicality

WEAK

hereticism idiocrasy unorthodoxness waywardness whimsicalness

Antonyms

STRONG

conformity normalcy normality regularity sameness standard usualness

WEAK

commonality dullness regularness uniformity usual

Example Sentences

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"A planet caught in resonance finds its orbit deformed to higher and higher eccentricities, precessing faster and faster while staying in tune with the orbit of the binary, which is shrinking," Touma said.

From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2026

He seemed, in short—for all his personal eccentricities and foibles—normal.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025

Before this series began, Stokes said the time off after his January operation had allowed him to iron out unintentional eccentricities that had crept into his bowling.

From BBC • Jul. 24, 2025

Escola is preternaturally gifted when it comes to picking up on people’s eccentricities and molding them into a beautifully Frankensteined creation.

From Salon • Jun. 9, 2025

Chacko had been a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and was permitted excesses and eccentricities nobody else was.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy